All Stories

  1. Games, Greek and Pluck: Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport, 1850–1914
  2. Beyond The Close: Rugby School's football network, 1840–1880
  3. John Charles Thring: footballer, codifier, advocate, schoolmaster and priest
  4. Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley: an extraordinary life, 1851–1920
  5. John Charles Thring: footballer, codifier, advocate, schoolmaster and priest
  6. Beyond The Close: Rugby School’s football network, 1840–1880
  7. Reginald Roper and the Secondary Schoolmasters’ Physical Education Association: physical literacy for the whole man, 1905–1939
  8. A school in England: the history of Repton, by Hugh Brogan
  9. The history of Uppingham School's own code of football from 1853 to 1889
  10. Three English schools during the Great war, 1914-1918,
  11. The first school in England to give music an important role in the curriculum: 1853-1908.
  12. History of holistic education in English schools.
  13. Girls boarding schools in England from 1939.
  14. A public school in the Great War.
  15. The recent history of some major boys' schools in England.
  16. A history of private schools in England.
  17. How literature can define ideals of manhood.
  18. The contribution of English public schools to the Great War.
  19. How Victorian ideals of manliness led to militarism.
  20. The contribution of pupils from private schools to Team GB at the Olympic Games.
  21. Eton fives is played with gloved hands and a 'golf' ball in a three-sided court.
  22. A biography of H H Stephenson, Victorian cricket coach.
  23. How classical Greece was used to validify public school athleticism.
  24. The first school mission to the London poor.
  25. Best-selling novelist sees cricket as a training ground for war.
  26. A headmaster uses literary heroes to cheer him on.
  27. Moral education was at the heart of Edward Thring's mid-Victorian Uppingham School.
  28. The mid-Victorian holistic ideal in theory and practice.